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34 counts falsifying business records, a humbling moment. sure. but one he is certain to exploit his political advantage tonight would take a closer look at the case that hurdles, donald j. trump, and the united states into uncharted legal and political territory. article for the him, berlin, and this is the day ah, a person of the united states is arrested in the building behind me. i. i'm excited for justice to be served if this call to search online. i think this is just the political persecution, or that they don't work as always,

we will not allow blemish or vandalism of any time, no matter who you are. hunch is very divided at this point. so it's important that we understand it's not about just also on the day nato double said border with russia by welcoming a new member into the alliance. ah, this is a new story. we welcome film long as the news member of our lives. it is a great day for finland, and i want to see that it is an important day for nato to ah, welcome to the show. is nothing short of a watershed moment for the political and criminal system in the united states. for

the 1st time in history, a former us president is facing criminal charges. donald j. trump turned himself into a court and manhattan and pleaded not guilty to $34.00 felony charges. trump did not speak to the media inside or outside the court house. he showed little emotion when he waved to crowds as he arrived to turn himself in. had been driven in a motorcade from his new york residence a trump tower. he's accused of falsifying business records in relation to hush money payments, allegedly made to several people in the run up to the 2016 election. after the arraignment, the judge released trump from custody without pre trial restrictions. and the charges against trump come from an investigation led by manhattan district attorney albany brag here is brags speaking to the press, just minutes after trump left. the court under new york state law is a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud it intent to conceal

another crime. that is exactly what this case is about. 34 false statements made to cover up other crimes. these are felony crimes in new york state. no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct. i'm d w. washington bureau chief, it's paul is outside the court building in manhattan, where trump was arraigned. enos trump has pleaded not guilty on all 34 counts. what can you tell us about the charges? yeah, that was quite a day here. nicole, we started really early and it was really intense. helicopters are still cruising over the court. i saw to simplify what's happened. the prosecutors are saying they're donald trump broke election law by falsifying business records to cover up

bad information about him. information which might have heard his chances to become elected as the president of the united states. many people here and probably around tonight is states and maybe even around the world we're hoping for some bombshells today to be disclosed. they might be disappointed because we didn't really learn really very new things, but it still might be far too early, really to say, or what we are will be a kind of learning over the course of the next days. because this is just like the very 1st moment after we heard about the charges and the historic court appearance has drawn huge crowns. there was concern about possible altercations who was there today. and what did they have to say about this whole affair? read them a 100, so for people in front of the court house before donald trump arrived and they also were there when he was inside and they came,

many of them came really from outside new york. and as always, in these cases, you see those who are in support of donald trump and those are very critical with them. i had the chance to talk with some of them. let's have a list of what they told me. it's going to help them. absolutely. i mean, listen, he was indeed he was an impeach. twice. he was under investigation since he came down the elevator in 2016 and they couldn't find anything. so this is just a distraction from what's really going on in this country where the binary here. i think this is a very serious moment right now, and it's wonderful that he is being held accountable for the crime that he's committed. this is the 1st i'm sure of many indictments that's going to come his way. i want to make sure that president trump doesn't get, you know, run over by this attorney general brag. and, and it's politically motivated, which on against him, i don't think it's going to hurt him. i think we,

the people stand for trump and that's why we're here today. i think the da did his job. he followed the facts and facts led to an indictment. this wasn't a case where it was influenced our, like donald trump took out a full page ads against 5 black kids and said there should be executed. this wasn't the case, would it have police officers lying on a record? he simply thought of the diffraction that led to indictment, and now we have to let the prost place up. oh, it already helped. i helped him yesterday, so it helped him the day before. so obviously it's going to help him today. he got a 10 percent boost in a bowls. rhonda sant has got a 10 percent negative in the polls yesterday. so you see how we just, i heard that this is also one of these very divisive issues in the united states in the call. and as little as we know what the outcome will be, we already know that this will be really a money machine for donald trump, because he's always able to turn attention into dollar. it's like only 24 hours

after the indictment was analysis. and friday, his campaign at least says he was able to fundraise $4000000.00. so this is anyhow, what he's going to make out of this appearance here today at the courthouse behind me. and no such thing as bad to list it either one of his big mottoes in his pull, joining us from new york city. great speaking to you now for more on the 1st criminal charges to ever be brought against a former or sitting president of the united states. let's bring and mark fisher. he's a senior editor at the washington post. mr. fisher, welcome to the de. now over the years, trump has been involved in many investigations. how come until now? none of them had led to an indictment. well, he's been a master manipulator. the courts. he's a master of delay, is already speaking to the way this trial. he's a master of marketing himself, was already selling t shirts and his campaign websites that show him with

a fake mug shots for $47.00. you get one of those t shirts and he says not guilty across the front of it. so he's someone who's able to move the legal system to his own bed. and he's been able to speak by using the system to delay and tackle attacking those were coming after the attack is already it's act, the judge, prosecutor. so this is ages from all stand the say both the federal news or 5 decades to escape legal troubles. can you do it again on the clear but certainly this is going to be a dominant factor in the coming. yeah, he has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the 1st degree . how serious is this these are serious felons. the lowest plan only no one who. busy didn't go to prison for all of these kinds of acts. busy but he will be

punished and he will face some serious consequences in an effort to perhaps to stop him from running for the 3rd time for president. but in all likelihood, this is when you switch out over the course of the campaign, the prosecution wants this trial to start in january of next year. the defense where you said no, let's wait to spring well into the presidential campaign. judge hasn't decided quite yet. when the trial starts, but it's going to be probably a year long process. yeah, the judge wants to get this underway as soon as possible as well. but let's not forget that trump is also being investigated and at least for other cases, isn't he? and some analysts argue that it's not ideal that this one was the 1st case for him to be indicted for why is that? well. busy case base has the center of the payments of money to a woman who actually mistakes to women who said that he had sexual relations with

them were sought to. and so it's the kind of behavior that some people, some americans by the private behavior should not be prosecuted. whereas the other investigations that are on the way that may need to invited to come weeks are of much more senior matters of policy and governance. matters of whether trump sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election, whether he secreted away classified documents after his president was over. so these are the kinds of issues that i think would have much wider public supporting prosecution in those cases. and the trump case you mentioned before is busy trying to spin this in a favor and getting lots of backing from their supporters actually. but i want to ask you as someone who's been watching from very closely over the years, you rode

a biography of his that this is a day he is long hoped would never come, isn't it? how do you think he personally feels about all this? well, you could tell by looking more home in court room, the pictures that have emerge, or someone who's angry, missed having to go through this process. he's, this is dave, this is a wait for them years. so he's, he's clearly shaken by this. on the other hand, way he always asked these things to be old, to take the anger and turn it to vantage. as the rest of aspect of his campaigns and his business wants to make money off. the list seems to be that track record, that he will the fact that only a handful of republicans have spoken out against this candidacy in light of his indictment. what does that tell us about his remaining power over the republican party because political in thing would be to immediately instrumental license

wasn't it? well, we'll see. busy so for most. busy speaking by him as they watch the polls as they watch how the base react to this indictment. but they've been a real, with the way from, from both among republican and independent voters. and among some offices there's as well over the last several months. and whether that will continue or not, we'll have to see if there's a tremendous consensus, miss country won't, don't crush republican alike. the people do not want to see either donald trump or joe biden, wanting from opposite what we want to new generation leadership. large majorities who say that way they'll stick with that work fuel sympathetic to trump feel that he's well road prosecuted for legal reasons. that's when we go over the coming months and it's anybody's guess. very true. mark fisher of the washington post.

thank you so much for those insights o finland is hailing it as the beginning of a new era. after decades of non alignment, the north country has firmly joined the nato military alliance. russia's full scale invasion of ukraine led to a change of heart, followed by the quickest accession process and nato's recent history. and much to vladimir putin chagrin an alliance that is now bigger than ever. finland was officially welcomed as the 31st member at the alliance's headquarters in brussels, finish foreign minister of pick a hobbies stool, sighing the official accession document and handed it to you as secretary of state . antony blinking, blinking seized the opportunity to ask turkey and hungary to also ratify sweden's requests to join the alliance. new member, finland has a 1300 kilometer long border with russia, and one of the strongest land based militaries in europe. and about this

historic day for nato and for finland, i can now speak to henry bonham. he's a research fellow at the finish institute of international affairs. mr. ben haunted . good to see you of finland. non alignment is a thing of the past. how significant is this for the country? it certainly represents the end of an arrow. and also it is linked to the end of an era more broadly in european security. with russia innovating the print, we saw the sort of collapse of respect for any kind of rules based secure at the order in europe. and i think what finland did is just basically drew the conclusion of this development and so ending the arrow minutes are not alignment for finland as well. but i would say that it also ends finance long journey to the west in general. the started, especially after the 2nd world war with 1st the dean de creation of between noted

countries and then gradually degrading economically is the west and then european union. and now nate, so, so the, in many ways, the sort of western gender of finland. the circle is now complete with joining nato now, but nato membership is not a one way street. is that what does a finland bring to the table? well, of course, one must not forget the pin and actually has very modern capability as it has modernized, states, navy vessels. it's about to get 60 for new f, 35 fires starting from 2026. it has the one of the strongest artillery in western europe. it has a war time strength of 280000. it fulfills to, to a percent done g d, b on defense. so we're actually looking at a country that takes its national security quite seriously, and actually does contribute to the security of not only the baltic sea, but also the arctic region. so you're looking at

a country that has actually give abilities to provide in, in pretty much all old domains, but also, you know, geographically wide area. russia has reacted to finance, accession thing that we can security in the wider region increases the risk of conflict and would for moscow to take counter measures. how is this they were rattling, being received in finland it will to be honest. it's something that finland has been preparing for quite some time. now. it also echoes the same rarity rhetoric that poon has used for years now. when he has spoken about famous potential nato membership and we were expecting for these kind of statements to, to increase. and i think we're going to see a lot more of that because when finland is now a member of nate. so it also. ready becomes a part of this russian sort of perception of enemies. and we're going to see a lot more harsh rhetoric and potentially in the far future russia when he tries to

build back its losses in the warranty crane and for his army. when it tries to build that back, he will most likely do some kind of troop maneuver in the goes to the territory is a fear in those borders. but other than that, i think it's just merely rhetoric because russia at the moment is basically occupied, occupying other countries. yeah. and how important is it for finland to get sweden into the alliance as well? now it's an essential question. no doubt. one must understand that if you look at the g o digit map of northern europe, but also tried to plan the defense of this region, you immediately can see that sweet and it's basically a potential hub for nato operations, as, as a platform to provide the troops secure to supply munition and also the so called statistic depth, which you will need a crisis scenario to be a vital interest for finished national security to evolve sweden in as soon as

possible. and we also know that nato's operational planning is only open to nato members. so as long as sweden is outside native, that means that nato will not be able to start the actual operational planning of northern europe and even hot enough to finish institute of international affairs. thanks for your time. thank you. ah, systemic rivals or a strategic autonomy or both european commission president was left on the line is traveling to china this week just days after laying out a framework to rebalance the ease relations with beijing shall be joining frances president, emmanuel mccomb for talks expected to focus on trade and the war and ukraine, the joint visit meant to underscore european unity comes at a time when the east main partner, the united states has been seeking to isolate china. he went german, chancellor, olaf sholtes, and he went shock michelle of the european council. and he went spanish prime

minister pedro sanchez, all made the pilgrimage to beijing shuttle diplomacy with a major player on the world stage. but not just diplomacy. they all went to talk trade. that trading relationship is huge. you countries exported $240000000000.00 worth of goods to china last year. much of that was in high margin items like heavy machinery, energy infrastructure and cars. european countries also don't want to be side large. as china's international influence grows. beijing is asserting itself, not just in asia, but in africa and the middle east. setting the stage for a superpower rivalry with the u. s. chinese communist parties can be a goal. is a systemic change of the international order with china at its center.

we have seen it with china's positions in multilateral bodies which show its determination to promote an alternative vision of the world order closer to home. europeans want china to help rain in russian aggression against ukraine. china is russia, economic lifeline. and at the end of march, chinese president asian king made a high profile visit to moscow. spain has press see to meet with his ukranian counterpart as well, so far to no avail. others want to prod beijing harder. oh, china continues to interact with proteins. war will be a determining factor for you. china relations going follow it. as a permanent member of the security council of china has a responsibility to safeguard the principles and values that lie at

the heart of the un charter. and china has a responsibility to play a constructive role in advantages and bouncing a just peace. beijing has been tight lipped about russia's war, aside from releasing a 12 point piece plan that was dismissed by the west is overly vague and too easy on moscow. the 1st point called for nations to respect territorial integrity and sovereignty, but made no specific demands on russia in regards to its invasion of its neighbor. so far, europe doesn't have much to show for its attempts to influence beijing. european leaders might ask themselves how much more credibility to invest without alienating the u. s. a traditional ally that is doing all it can to isolate china. and tech parent joins me now for more from brussels. jack will china's actions over

ukraine really determine the eas, attitudes, largest trading partner? yes, to be question nicole. when asked live on the line, the european commission president, outlined in that speech her plan. she said that it was due to the risk not to decouple from china. that's the plan bearing in mind that you m exports into china remains to about 9 percent of the whole trading relationship that the you has and 20 percent of everything that you imports comes from china. specifically, things like lithium, really important in batteries, which are a priority issue for the use green transition. 97 percent of the use lithium comes from china. having said that, the european union officials, the i've spoken to people from the member states of the you that are watching this visit by a sort of on the line and a manual. but macro closely said that that speech did broadly distill what the european union's overarching position is that they want to keep the relationship with china. but the china has to do more, a must play

a bigger role in trying to get russia to end the war. and ukraine, how much weight do these words have though, if they're followed by a state visit, joined by dozens of business representatives hoping to strike 1000000000 dollar deal? yeah, this is the really big question. we had that the outline of all of the people in the delegation and in the, in the sort of entourage that are going behind with a manual micron, 53 business leaders from france are going along with him. and that was the criticism that was really heavily leveled at the german chancellor la shows when he recently visited china, that this was all about business. we've heard human rights charities across europe in the world saying that europe isn't using it's leverage against china to try and look into things like the place of the wiggers and changing, and other human rights issues. also to put leverage on china regarding the issue of taiwan as well. the lithuanian foreign ministers being tweeting today saying that the risking is just a simple, a short term strategy. a quick fix to deal with the relationship with china.

bearing mind his country put a de facto embassy in taipei in taiwan. and has received a barrage of criticism and sort of a trading fries from the chinese and had a downgrading of diplomatic relations. so that's one of you members state is facing sort of the, the full force of chinese, you know, unpleasant actions in the wake of something they've done. so there is a lot of pressure on what this of, on the line and one manual micron going to do as we say, the thing a big business i'll delegation. they've made some strong statements here in europe . how hard will they go when they meet with shipping in asia? well, we have a couple of seconds left, but the you would like to see china take a step back from its no limits, friendship with russia, with so many liter showing that their economies need china. what is their leverage if they have any at all at this point? no, sir, it's the trading relationship because well, china, well the eas,

rely on china. china is also reliant on your for the import export relationship as well. i spoke to a couple of experts. one said that the most important thing now is that european leaders get their message straight. the string of european leaders that have been traipsing through beijing may have been giving incoherent and mixed messages. and i think that's what micron and bonded line will try to do show a unified european face and that our time jack parent, thank you so much. and for myself on the entire team here on the day. thank you so much for spending parts of your day with

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